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A question about random numbers in Excel?

I'm using Excel 2007 and have created a modeling program that uses a lot of random numbers generated by RANDBETWEEN. Every time I open the file, or do a calculation, all the random numbers are re-generated. That's fine in some cases, but I'd also like to know if I can "freeze" the results at some point and save it, and if I open the file again I have the same results showing.

I'm dating myself here, but in Lotus-123 you could turn off the calculations, which would achieve the result I'm looking for if there was an equivalent command in Excel.

Any help? Thanks...!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    you can change excel to Manual Calculation (F9) too

    - click on the Office Button (top left logo)

    - click excel options

    - Click formulas

    - change it to Manual

    - looks like you want to uncheck recalculate before saving

    then just hit the F9 key and it will recalculate

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Use the randbetween function and divide by potential of one hundred with the aid of fact the randbetween function generates random numbers between integers and dividing by potential of one hundred will shrink the numbers to decimal =randbetween(4,24)/one hundred positioned the above in a cellular and then pick the decrease appropriate nook of the cellular and whilst conserving the ctrl key drag till you have crammed 30 cells.

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